My dad has told me that my sister (45) has found out she can't have children after having had blood in her urine. She's just got married and although I don't know if they were trying for children, she's very upset and tearful obviously.
In my ignorance, I only know that being unable to have children is caused by infertility of some kind (someone at my work can't have children because of only having one ovary, male fertility problems etc). What would cause this bleeding and why would it affect her ability to have children? Also, apparantly she hasn't been referred to a hospital gyny dept., only seen her GP?? Is this likely with something so serious?
The reason I guess I'm asking so many questions is that my sister is a hypochondriac, and I mean that in the true sense of the word, I'm not being flippant or mocking. For 30 years she has had 'illness' after 'illness' so much so that that is in part why we are not close, just have a 'civil' relationship with each other. The frustration I've felt over the years has been unbelievable. She has had every test going, including full body and brain scans and her GP (so she tells me) is getting to the end of his tether. She is never actually ill and appears to be incredibly healthy, but every other time I speak to her there is something else 'wrong'. Her work docked her pay last year because of the amount of time she has had off. When I was younger I wondered if she actually had munchausens (excuse spelling if wrong).
This may seem harsh, and I have texted her to say so sorry to hear of troubles, understand if she may not want to talk to me about it, but am here for her. It's just years of experience have taught me to be hesitant - that she's not actually going blind, that she's not got epilepsy, that she's not even got anal fissures (!). The list could go on and on.....